{"id":"CVE-2022-0171","details":"A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows a non-root (host) user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest VM instance in AMD CPU that supports Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).","modified":"2026-04-16T04:43:11.481796821Z","published":"2022-08-26T18:15:08.603Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0171"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038940"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.18"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.18-NA"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.18-rc1"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.18-rc2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.18-rc3"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"10.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"11.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0171.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}